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Lawmakers release documents on Wal-Mart bribery

Lawmakers release documents on Wal-Mart bribery
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIOAP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s CEO Mike Duke found out in 2005 that the retailer's Mexico unit was handing out bribes to local officials, according to emails obtained by lawmakers. The lawmakers say the emails contradict earlier

Lawmakers release documents on Wal-Mart bribery

Lawmakers release documents on Wal-Mart bribery
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIOAP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s CEO Mike Duke found out in 2005 that the retailer's Mexico unit was handing out bribes to local officials, according to emails obtained by lawmakers. The lawmakers say the emails contradict earlier

Lawmakers release documents on Wal-Mart bribery

Lawmakers release documents on Wal-Mart bribery
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIOAP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s CEO Mike Duke found out in 2005 that the retailer's Mexico unit was handing out bribes to local officials, according to emails obtained by lawmakers. The lawmakers say the emails contradict earlier

Hong Kong moves to limit info on company directors

Hong Kong moves to limit info on company directors
By KELVIN CHANAP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong is proposing to restrict the amount of personal information available on company directors in the wake of investigative news reports that used the data to help expose fortunes linked to Chinese leaders. Under the proposed changes, home

Arizona sheriff launches patrols outside schools

Arizona sheriff launches patrols outside schools
By JACQUES BILLEAUDAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix has launched a plan to have as many as 500 armed volunteers patrol areas just outside schools in an effort to guard against shootings like month's attack at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26

Khuzami leaving SEC, led post-crisis enforcement

Khuzami leaving SEC, led post-crisis enforcement
By MARCY GORDONAP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert Khuzami is leaving the Securities and Exchange Commission after leading the agency's efforts to penalize the nation's largest banks for actions that triggered the 2008 financial crisis. The SEC announced Khuzami's resignation

UPDATE: Schools In Moses Lake Go Into Lock Down

UPDATE: Schools In Moses Lake Go Into Lock Down
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: Law enforcement officers from several agencies teamed up Wednesday morning to apprehend two men and a juvenile suspected of severely beating another man. Early on Wednesday Jan. 9, 2013, Grant County deputies were called for an assault

UPDATE: Schools In Moses Lake Go Into Lock Down

UPDATE: Schools In Moses Lake Go Into Lock Down
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE GRANT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: Law enforcement officers from several agencies teamed up Wednesday morning to apprehend two men and a juvenile suspected of severely beating another man. Early on Wednesday Jan. 9, 2013, Grant County deputies were called for an assault

Court weighs warrantless blood tests in DUI cases

Court weighs warrantless blood tests in DUI cases
By MARK SHERMANAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is considering whether police must get a warrant before ordering a blood test on an unwilling drunken-driving suspect. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case involving a disputed blood test from Missouri. Police stopped a

Court weighs warrantless blood tests in DUI cases

Court weighs warrantless blood tests in DUI cases
By MARK SHERMANAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is considering whether police must get a warrant before ordering a blood test on an unwilling drunken-driving suspect. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case involving a disputed blood test from Missouri. Police stopped a